DCHP-1 Online

sod hut West

• a rude dwelling having walls of sods and a roof either of sods supported by wooden rafters or, sometimes, canvas.

  See also: sod shack  

  • 1921  Year after year more "claims" were taken up, more "sod huts" were built, more of the land was broken for crops.
  • 1963  [Greetings] to people who once lived in log cabins and to those who lived in sod huts. . . .
  • 1967  [In 1898] . . . gophers dotted the prairie wool like tent pegs . . . where my grandfather and my uncle would build a sod hut.